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GJEP’s Breaking Green Interview with Nnimmo Bassey Featured in LA Progressive
In this interview, Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian architect and award-winning environmentalist, author, and poet, talks about the history of exploitation of the African continent, the failure of the international community to recognize the climate debt owed to the Global South, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference that will take place in Egypt in November 2022.
Video: Mapuche Lonko Alberto Curamil Freed!
Goldman Prize Winner's Lawyer Rodrigo Román Speaks about his case This video was shot over the week of 25 November, during the trial of Mapuche Lonko Alberto Curamil over manufactured charges that he was involved in a robbery. In fact, his arrest and subsequent year...
Full Moon Friday the 13th at the Chile Uprising in Santiago
Anonymous musician heads to the front lines. The majority of the front lines are personed by youth. Santiago: where militancy, music and art meet. Copy and all photographs by Orin Langelle Santiago, Chile - Last night, 13 December, thousands of people took to the...
COP25: Perpetuating Impunity for Human Rights Violations
Santiago, Chile. On International Human Rights Day: tear gas canister flies through the air. A canister like this struck a 15 year old girl in the demonstration and sent her to the hospital for surgery. She was in critical condition. Photo: photolangelle.org COP25...
Video: CHILE PHOTO DIARIES – from the frontlines
Peace sign flashed during a 25 Nov. march to end violence against women in Temuco, Chile. Photo: photolangelle.org 22 November to 6 December 2019 (video under field notes below) I Can Still Spit Field Notes - I landed in Santiago, Chile on 22 November from Buffalo, NY...
IPA Press Release – Climate: Chile Still Heading UN Meeting — “Shooting Eyes Out”
The "eyes" protest at Plaza de la Dignidad and the statue of Manuel Baquedano Photo: Langelle/GJEP Institute for Public Accuracy Press Release Climate: Chile Still Heading UN Meeting — “Shooting Eyes Out” December 12, 2019 ANNE PETERMANN, anne at...
Video: Civil Society Shut Out of COP25 in Madrid
Civil society shut out behind the men in suits. photo courtesy Global Forest Coalition Note: With Chile still at the helm, this is hardly a surprise. At least they didn't shoot people in the face. Two videos below by Liane Schalatek Unprecedented protest rocks...
Statement from the Cumbre de Los Pueblos in Santiago: Save the Earth – Change the System! “SALVEMOS LA TIERRA, CAMBIEMOS EL SISTEMA”
2019 PEOPLES’ SUMMIT DECLARATION Para la declaración en español, ver abajo Over December 2-7, 2019, hundreds of organizations, men, women, indigenous and afro-descendant peoples, migrant communities, peasants, workers, youth, girls and boys from Chile, Latin America...
Video: Declaración a la COP25 de comunidades en Chile: no a las soluciones climáticas naturales
For the video in English: https://globaljusticeecology.org/video-statement-to-cop25-from-mapuche-others-in-chile-no-market-based-solutions/ Chile iba a ser el antitrión de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático, COP25 2-14 Diciembre 2019. Sin...
Human Rights in Chile and at Chile-Controlled COP25: Attack children, Medics & Civil Society
Bloody hands of the government hold eyeballs in a Human Rights Day commemoration of the 350+ eyes taken by the Chilean National Police since the uprising in Chile began Note: In a tragic irony, #InternationalHumanRightsDay in Chile yesterday ended with a 15 year old...